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After that, Mr. Forrest shaking hands with Bobby Kennedy.† (source)

Owen had never said a word to me about Bobby Kennedy's assassination.† (source)

It had been through the ceiling one night in April, when Ashoke and Ashima were eating their dinner, that they'd heard about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and just recently, of Senator Robert Kennedy.† (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

Then came the period when people we knew—not knew personally, but knew of— started falling to the ground: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy.† (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

Ten Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago.† (source)

Their feud dates to the autumn of 1959, when Bobby Kennedy went to visit Johnson at his expansive Texas ranch.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy is out buying sacks full of votes.† (source)

We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam.† (source)

-ROBERT F. KENNEDY — December 18, 1963.† (source)

Robert Kennedy worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

That was the year Robert Kennedy was assassinated; you might recall that.† (source)

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In fact, much to the rage of Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson rambles on for another fifteen minutes.† (source)

It is Bobby Kennedy who answers the phone.† (source)

Lyndon Johnson's long-winded Cabinet Room speech does not please Bobby Kennedy.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy gets the bad news from J. Edgar Hoover.† (source)

Even Bobby Kennedy believed that Oswald did not act alone.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy thinks LBJ is a political charlatan.† (source)

The president's father and Bobby Kennedy own homes right next door.† (source)

He owes Bobby Kennedy a favor—a very big favor.† (source)

But Robert Kennedy is the U.S. attorney general, sworn to uphold the nation's laws.† (source)

No one speaks to Bobby Kennedy that way.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy is aware of his cultural influence; he well understands the Camelot allure.† (source)

It is left to Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy to finish the civil rights agenda of June 22.† (source)

Meanwhile, Bobby Kennedy is quietly backing away from his anti-Mafia investigations.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy is a driving force behind his brother's new stand.† (source)

Truth be told, the civil rights movement is an enormous headache for Bobby Kennedy.† (source)

I'd last seen Hester at 80 Front Street; with my grandmother, Hester and I had watched Bobby Kennedy be killed in Los Angeles—over and over again.† (source)

Not even five years later, when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, Hester would say, "Television gives good disaster."† (source)

I'm sure that Owen was too preoccupied with his own death to have anything to say about Bobby Kennedy's.† (source)

Then in March, Bobby Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination; in the same month, President Johnson said he would not seek reelection.† (source)

While Bobby Kennedy works closely with his brother, his wife, Ethel, and their three children are frequently at the White House.† (source)

The story goes on to say that Bobby Kennedy appealed to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to expunge those records.† (source)

The tapes, Parker would say, are "my ticket to get Hoover's job when Bobby Kennedy becomes president."† (source)

With family baggage all over the place, Bobby Kennedy knows he is anything but a sure thing for the presidency.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy rushes to his brother's defense when Lyndon Johnson complains that he's been kept out of the loop.† (source)

The man who took most advantage of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for the presidency in 1968 was Bobby Kennedy.† (source)

Finally Bobby Kennedy takes the floor.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy sits on the far side.† (source)

After reading Hoover's Sinatra file, Bobby Kennedy tells the president to stay somewhere else in Palm Springs.† (source)

This will put control of White House business into the hands of Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy, whose feuding has reached an all-time high.† (source)

The bond between Jack and Bobby Kennedy became tighter than ever during the Cuban missile crisis, even as Lyndon Johnson once again stumbled.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy is a lawyer who has never tried a case in court, and he's an attorney general who got the job because of his father and brother.† (source)

For Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, this is the ideal opportunity to show the gathering just who is boss.† (source)

He calls Bobby Kennedy every name in the book, then phones Lawford back and cuts him off from his inner circle.† (source)

On the other end of the line, Bobby Kennedy picks up the phone and says a professional hello to his new boss.† (source)

The truth—and Bobby Kennedy knows this—is that in large parts of the South, black Americans have little protection from prejudice and violence.† (source)

It was Bobby Kennedy himself who ordered that Walker be charged for acts of violence against the civil rights of an American citizen.† (source)

He sits at his desk on the fifth floor of the Justice Department Building as he picks up the phone to call Bobby Kennedy.† (source)

Giancana's motivation was revenge for Bobby Kennedy's ongoing Justice Department investigations into organized criminal activity.† (source)

Among them was that Marilyn Monroe had had an affair with Bobby Kennedy as well as JFK, and that Bobby was complicit in Monroe's death.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy was instrumental in helping civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders travel by bus into the South to fight segregation in 1961.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy has become such a political force that even the vice president worries he is powerless to stop Bobby from winning in 1968.† (source)

At the same time, at home, Bobby Kennedy is engaged in a completely different power struggle, one best epitomized by an incident that happened seven years ago.† (source)

Other than John Kennedy, only two men are allowed to enter the Oval Office through the Rose Garden door: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.† (source)

But the world is changing drastically, and Bobby Kennedy reflects the youth and vitality of Camelot instead of the stodgy cold war values synonymous with the older Johnson.† (source)

And on a much more personal level, he must negotiate the animus between Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who despise each other.† (source)

But today, a Wednesday, is one day he absolutely must be in Washington, D.C. Bobby Kennedy and their brother Teddy, the new senator from Massachusetts, join JFK as he watches King begin speaking.† (source)

Any involvement by Bobby Kennedy in Marilyn Monroe's death, whether it was suicide or murder, makes it a conspiracy theory without substance to this day.† (source)

Right here in Washington, the CIA is none too happy about rumors that JFK would like to place the agency under closer presidential supervision by putting Bobby Kennedy in charge.† (source)

Just a few short weeks after being named attorney general, Bobby Kennedy received a special file from J. Edgar Hoover, the pug-nosed and Machiavellian head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.† (source)

Bobby Kennedy is winning this war.† (source)

The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.† (source)

If Lyndon Johnson is the vice president, it will one day be written, then Bobby Kennedy is soon to become the assistant president—but only after the Bay of Pigs bonds the brothers and transforms the way JFK does business in the White House.† (source)

This one indicates that the president of the United States is having sex with a consort of Sam Giancana, not only one of the most notorious mobsters in the country, but also at the top of the list of Mafia kingpins whom Bobby Kennedy is trying to bring down.† (source)

On March 4, just one week before Lyndon Johnson's St. Augustine speech, Attorney General Robert Kennedy responds to the Esquire story by telling the press, "I have no plans to run at this time"—which the media know to be code for "I'm running."† (source)

However, like his brother, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by a disturbed lone gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Bobby in a Los Angeles hotel just moments after he had claimed victory in the California primary.† (source)

The murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, coupled with the drawn-out American involvement in Vietnam, led to a national sense of disillusionment that was the diametric opposite of Camelot's hope and optimism.† (source)

About a thousand miles away, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy actually scolded the black civil rights leaders who had organized the children's march, stating that "schoolchildren participating in street demonstrations is dangerous business.† (source)

So as Jackie Kennedy finishes filming the newsreel, and rises from the club chair in Bobby Kennedy's office—he will keep the attorney general title for nine more months—she understands that this is all part of her ongoing obligation to frame her husband's legacy.† (source)

So he will continue with the political game he's played since he joined the Justice Department during World War I. He will endure Bobby Kennedy's overeager style, just as he will continue to chronicle, yet keep silent on, the president's indiscretions.† (source)

But beginning with his May 1961 Law Day address at the University of Georgia Law School, Bobby Kennedy made it plain he would use his Justice Department as a bully pulpit to enforce civil rights throughout America, particularly in the Deep South.† (source)

Despite—or perhaps even because of—the violence, the civil rights movement continues to gain momentum, and Robert Kennedy is now paying close attention to one of its most prominent leaders, a thirty-three-year-old charismatic Baptist minister named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend King is as intense and enigmatic as President Kennedy.† (source)

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